Cultivate a mindset of change agility within teams

One marked difference between organisations who survived or thrived during Covid-19 is the ability to ‘pivot' or change based on the challenges the pandemic presented.

Change agility is the key to the future success of an organisation and team. In essence, an agile organisation can adapt swiftly to a circumstance and revert with an almost instantaneous response to changes in markets, competitors, products, services and customers.

In a day and age where a change of internal and external factors is the norm, the ability to adapt to this change quickly is fast becoming a competitive advantage. This is leverage with which an organisation can truly thrive.

This change agility needs to exist at team level, as teams ultimately contribute to the competitiveness and success of the organisation.

Change agility is not just a buzzword: it’s a skill! It becomes crucial in not just keeping up but getting ahead. An agile workplace and team are equipped to:

• Deal effectively with challenges.

• Create a productive and positive work environment.

• Encourage leadership.

• Foster critical thinking.

• Enhance productivity.

• Increase engagement.

If change agility is a skill, then Executives, HR leaders and managers need to actively work toward cultivating this capability amongst their teams. Here at culture by design we even go as far to suggest that organisations recruit for change agility, meaning it’s less about tools and more about individual traits and the organisational culture you require.

What do change agile individuals demonstrate?

• A learning mindset.

• Enabled to take risks.

• A problem solver.

• Keen focus.

• Someone who questions and is curious

• Resourceful.

• Outcome centric.

• A team player.

How to you build this skill into your existing workforce?

Skilling your teams to change agile is a process. This can be accomplished by:

• Introducing the concept that change is inevitable and an expected occurrence.

• Implementing frameworks for continuous productivity and decision making.

• Building resilience and emotional intelligence.

• Empowering them to continuously innovate.

If you are interested in exploring a framework to instilling change agility in your teams, please get in touch